Business: The Hunts Are on the Hunt

Nelson Bunker Hunt is lying low these days, which is not easy for the
275 Ib. Croesus, whose silver market setback last month triggered Wall
Street's worst panic in nearly two decades. Hunt had tried to corner
silver and been badly squeezed, when prices plummeted from $21.50 per
oz. to $10.20 in less than four days. Early last week Hunt was tucking
into a steak dinner in the Rib Room of London's Carlton Tower hotel
when a Merrill Lynch customer's man seated near by spotted him. After...